斂 — Chinese character

Pinyin

liǎn

Radical

66 ⽁ (Rap)

Strokes

17

Components

僉 攵

Formation

pictophonetic — strike; meaning component 攵; sound component 僉

Simplified

敛

Japanese

斂 as a kanji

斂 in the Chinese classics

Occurrences: Analects 1 · Mencius 4 · Zhuangzi 4 · Great Learning 2 · Doctrine of the Mean 1

• Analects 11.16
• Mencius 1A.5
• Mencius 1B.4
• Mencius 6B.7
• Mencius 7A.23
• Zhuangzi The Tao of God
• Zhuangzi Mountain Trees
• Zhuangzi On Declining Power

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